The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to hold a workshop meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in council chambers at City Hall. A public participation session is scheduled to take place near the end of the meeting, after comments from city officials. Items on the agenda for the meeting include: • Special event fee amendments […]

This weekend two events will show support for the LGBT community. Destination Asbury Park returns as the city welcomes the Garden State Equality 6th Annual Walk. “What’s amazing about this moment is that transgender visibility has never been greater,” said Garden State Equality Executive Director Andrea Bowen. “We had Janet Mock and Laverne Cox making […]

A fundraiser to support the Seidle children was immediately established by family friends Ian Nugent, 21, and Brian Faber, 22, both of Neptune, following the tragic death of Tamara Seidle. “We both just really wanted to make any kind of change and help out the family any way we could,” said Nugent, the best friend […]

The Asbury Park Police Department has issued a change in traffic pattern alert for the additional STOP sign at the intersection of Sunset Avenue and Memorial Drive. The new stop sign was implemented as part of an agreement with NJ Transit to shift the Sunset Avenue Bridge repair detour route entering and exiting the city […]

The Ocean Township Police Department has issued a rabid wildlife advisory after a fox captured in the attack of a dog tested positive for the rabies virus. The fox was sent to the state Department of Health for a rabies examination after it attacked and bit a dog on June 7 near West Lincoln Avenue […]

Asbury Park joins the close to 150 communities across the state opening Farmer’s Markets this weekend, according to the NJ Dept. of Agriculture. “Jersey Fresh fruits and vegetables are here and one of the best ways to find them is by visiting your local community farmers market,” said Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher Wednesday […]

Veteran Neptune Township police officer Phil Seidle, 51, has been charged with the first degree murder of his ex-wife Tamara, 51, near 11:26 a.m. Tuesday, Monmouth County First Assistant Prosecutor Marc LeMieux [shown above] said.  Seidle [shown in a Facebook photo at right], who was off duty at the time, is also charged with second […]

A group of unlikely partners may have come together Tuesday afternoon to celebrate Bradley Elementary School’s new state-of-the-art soccer field but it was the students that stole the show. When asked by Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund representative Eileen Kean what they thought of their new soccer field there was a resounding show of […]

Bouncing Souls lead singer and artist Greg Attonito will unveil his latest mural installation 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Hoagitos on the Asbury Park boardwalk. The customized art project will front along the pop-up gourmet sandwich food vendor’s Third Avenue location on the boardwalk. “I’m pretty excited to unveil this to public,” co-owner Mark Spagnuolo said. […]

The Board of Education has appointed as Labor Counsel the attorney who represented two unsuccessful candidates on the A-Team slate in their lawsuit to open 343 vote-by-mail ballots rejected by the Monmouth County Board of Elections in last November’s election. Essex County based attorney Aaron Mizrahi filed the lawsuit on behalf of A-Team mayoral candidate […]